er... Unobtanium is a word that's been used for sometime now, like before I was born. Knowing the word already and then hearing it in the film I felt that either the character was making fun of how amazing this metal was, or that James Cameron was poking fun of the "made up material/substance" we so often see in sci-fi to explain things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
For me personally, the old races in B5 didn't feel like gods in the sense of the word god, more that to the younger races they could seem god like and they had manipulated our religious texts, rather than them actually being gods. Although B5 did focus on religion in large amounts.
It's being repeated in the UK right now from start to finish and I've not seen in since it was first on, it really is a great story and is great to watch again when you know the story, you notice little references that you likely missed the first time around.
Actually you're right yes, the new BSG did have some realistic looking battles. I think B5 sticks in my mind because of some of the cool manoeuvres the Starfury pilots would pull off because of their fancy engine design and layout.
While you're right that the shrapnel is deadly, the shockwave from a grenade is enough to cause a lot of harm, the closer you are the worse off you'll be.
Babylon 5 is still the only sci-fi show/film that had battles that I felt could be real, in particular the EA Starfury fighters, or the SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfury if you want to be really nerdy. I believe NASA asked for permission to use the design.
I see a difference, my house mate is Jamaican and we often see our differences, the food she eats, the music she listens to, she's even more likely to get ill in certain ways that I'm less likely to.
I don't think those differences matter to our friendship or to anything else for that matter, but I do see them.
Personally, I see that we are all different, I just don't understand why that means we can't all get along.
Anyone that lived though even a small part of the 70s will remember the monkey comparison to black people and will likely have a hard time seeing this as anything but racially motivated. Can you give me another reason for why she would be a monkey? I find it hard to believing it was done to say she is as stupid as Bush.
As I play "unlicensed" music daily on my iPhone that didn't come from iTunes and was ripped off CDs I think you're going to be out of pocket.
Really have no idea what device would do what the above poster is talking about...
This is ridiculous, your point is ridiculous, if a person calls me (I'm white) "the n word" then I'd be a little confused but in no way would I feel that insulted, if someone called a black person the same thing then I can totally understand why that person would be insulted/angry/hurt.
Why people need to even ask why there is a difference between this and the Bush/chimp picture truly confuses me.
Made up statistics for the win! Seriously, three kinds of lies, lies, damn lies and statistics. Yours is one of them. Or do you really think half of the Xbox 360s in the world really don't work?
Then why is Microsoft still in business? How much money do they have?
Type "50% xbox 360 fail" into Google. He didn't make anything up, that's not a world wide number, but he didn't make anything up.
Oh, and I know about 7 people with a 360, every single one has had his die and one of them lost over 6 of them in the space of a year. And to the anonymous poster above you, the very LEAST they can do with that sort of fail rate is what they have been doing.
VIFF is the correct term, and yes it was widely bandied about during the Falklands war... But postwar research hasn't discovered a single instance of it being used in combat during the war.
I think you'll find that is mostly down to the Royal Navy/RAF not been very keen on their pilots doing it, I think in the early days a pilot was almost court marshalled, and not because it's not been used (although probably nowhere near the amount of times we're lead to believe).
The commander of the British Forces in Argentina pretty much agreed with you, when ordered by home to let the enemy fire first his gut reaction was that he was going to lose the Carrier.
If Palm want their devices to work with OSX then they are perfectly capable to write their own software, in fact they did and then discontinued it, so don't give me any of that rubbish.
In fact, there is absolutely no reason for them to be leaching off iTunes either, other phone makers seem perfectly capable of writing their own sync software that uses the iTunes library, but for some reason Palm feels they don't have to do that and they have to make the Pre fake as an iPod.
And Snow Leopard IS about legacy.
I think it's unfair to say the new film was for TNG fans and use it as some sort of insult, I'm a huge TNG fan and consider it to be one of the best TV shows ever made but I wasn't a big fan of the new film at all.
Frankly IIRC, only the Klingon empire vs Federation got resolved and are at peace after.
Terms ended well with the Romulans by the end of TNG, Cardassians had a new leader by the end of DS9 and he was for the most part, pro-Federation. There are other examples as well.
I feel that it's always "finally" with Microsoft lately, they finally make a kind of secure OS, they finally follow this or that standard. It's annoying to hear people tell me Vista/7 is more secure than something like OSX, waving Pwn2Own around, when Microsoft have spent the last few decades ignoring standards and treating security as a very very afterthought.
Seriously, if Microsoft worked to standards instead of coding something that works in some form or another and then expecting THAT to be the standard the computing world would be a lot better off.
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That's not completely true, it was a 386 DX.
You've pretty much hit the political nail on the head.
er... Unobtanium is a word that's been used for sometime now, like before I was born. Knowing the word already and then hearing it in the film I felt that either the character was making fun of how amazing this metal was, or that James Cameron was poking fun of the "made up material/substance" we so often see in sci-fi to explain things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
The plot isn't bad, it's just nothing new. When taken as a whole, the movie is wonderful.
For me personally, the old races in B5 didn't feel like gods in the sense of the word god, more that to the younger races they could seem god like and they had manipulated our religious texts, rather than them actually being gods. Although B5 did focus on religion in large amounts. It's being repeated in the UK right now from start to finish and I've not seen in since it was first on, it really is a great story and is great to watch again when you know the story, you notice little references that you likely missed the first time around.
Actually you're right yes, the new BSG did have some realistic looking battles. I think B5 sticks in my mind because of some of the cool manoeuvres the Starfury pilots would pull off because of their fancy engine design and layout.
While you're right that the shrapnel is deadly, the shockwave from a grenade is enough to cause a lot of harm, the closer you are the worse off you'll be.
Babylon 5 is still the only sci-fi show/film that had battles that I felt could be real, in particular the EA Starfury fighters, or the SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfury if you want to be really nerdy. I believe NASA asked for permission to use the design.
So because they patent it, they are going to use it? I'll kick up a fuss (and by that I mean vote with my wallet) when I see an Apple product do this.
I see a difference, my house mate is Jamaican and we often see our differences, the food she eats, the music she listens to, she's even more likely to get ill in certain ways that I'm less likely to. I don't think those differences matter to our friendship or to anything else for that matter, but I do see them. Personally, I see that we are all different, I just don't understand why that means we can't all get along.
Anyone that lived though even a small part of the 70s will remember the monkey comparison to black people and will likely have a hard time seeing this as anything but racially motivated. Can you give me another reason for why she would be a monkey? I find it hard to believing it was done to say she is as stupid as Bush.
As I play "unlicensed" music daily on my iPhone that didn't come from iTunes and was ripped off CDs I think you're going to be out of pocket. Really have no idea what device would do what the above poster is talking about...
This is ridiculous, your point is ridiculous, if a person calls me (I'm white) "the n word" then I'd be a little confused but in no way would I feel that insulted, if someone called a black person the same thing then I can totally understand why that person would be insulted/angry/hurt. Why people need to even ask why there is a difference between this and the Bush/chimp picture truly confuses me.
Made up statistics for the win! Seriously, three kinds of lies, lies, damn lies and statistics. Yours is one of them. Or do you really think half of the Xbox 360s in the world really don't work?
Then why is Microsoft still in business? How much money do they have?
Type "50% xbox 360 fail" into Google. He didn't make anything up, that's not a world wide number, but he didn't make anything up. Oh, and I know about 7 people with a 360, every single one has had his die and one of them lost over 6 of them in the space of a year. And to the anonymous poster above you, the very LEAST they can do with that sort of fail rate is what they have been doing.
Sorry, some grammar mistakes in that post, I was typing in a hurry.
VIFF is the correct term, and yes it was widely bandied about during the Falklands war... But postwar research hasn't discovered a single instance of it being used in combat during the war.
I think you'll find that is mostly down to the Royal Navy/RAF not been very keen on their pilots doing it, I think in the early days a pilot was almost court marshalled, and not because it's not been used (although probably nowhere near the amount of times we're lead to believe).
The commander of the British Forces in Argentina pretty much agreed with you, when ordered by home to let the enemy fire first his gut reaction was that he was going to lose the Carrier.
Is there a special place in hell for morons like you who just bash MS?
Windows 7 is a very good operating system by all sensible accounts.
Probably, there is probably also a special place in hell for companies that abuse monopolies and feel they are above the law.
If Palm want their devices to work with OSX then they are perfectly capable to write their own software, in fact they did and then discontinued it, so don't give me any of that rubbish. In fact, there is absolutely no reason for them to be leaching off iTunes either, other phone makers seem perfectly capable of writing their own sync software that uses the iTunes library, but for some reason Palm feels they don't have to do that and they have to make the Pre fake as an iPod. And Snow Leopard IS about legacy.
I think it's unfair to say the new film was for TNG fans and use it as some sort of insult, I'm a huge TNG fan and consider it to be one of the best TV shows ever made but I wasn't a big fan of the new film at all.
Frankly IIRC, only the Klingon empire vs Federation got resolved and are at peace after.
Terms ended well with the Romulans by the end of TNG, Cardassians had a new leader by the end of DS9 and he was for the most part, pro-Federation. There are other examples as well.
OS X isn't Apple's downfall, its the fact their computers are so annoyingly expensive that most people won't buy them.
I think you're drastically missing the point of Apple.
I believe there was no need to wait for the update to be jailbroken and it went right on using the normal jailbreak tools.
I feel that it's always "finally" with Microsoft lately, they finally make a kind of secure OS, they finally follow this or that standard. It's annoying to hear people tell me Vista/7 is more secure than something like OSX, waving Pwn2Own around, when Microsoft have spent the last few decades ignoring standards and treating security as a very very afterthought. Seriously, if Microsoft worked to standards instead of coding something that works in some form or another and then expecting THAT to be the standard the computing world would be a lot better off.
I have to agree with the two posters above me, Apple aftercare has been for me, brilliant and there is no "aura" about it for me.